Jump Out of A Plane - CHECK!!!

Hello from New Zealand!!!! I have been here for a little over three days now and it is amazing! Every corner you turn is lush green hills and bright turquoise water that looks like it was painted onto a canvas with perfectly white, fluffy clouds!!

I'm travelling with the Kiwi Experience bus which so so cool! Basically, it is like grown-up, adrenaline-pumped summer camp! Our bus is bright green and carries about 30 of us, most of the passengers are young 20's to early 30's. Lots of Europeans, a couple Canadians, Adam and I from the states and an occasional Kiwi/Aussie swinging through. Anyways, most people are on teh same route and same time frame as me so we will be traveling together for the next few weeks! It has been so fun playing silly road games, having random chats, walking around new cities, etc with 30 new friends - and you learn so much about so many places then too!

Our first stop was to the Bay of Islands - absolutely gorgeous. We took a ferry to Russel Island and did a great bush walk to a lookout point of the ocean and islands. The next morning I woke up to a perfect sky and WENT SKYDIVING!!!! SO AWESOME!! I loved it! THe flight was stunning and the fall so cool! We jumped from 12,000 feet and freefall for about 45 seconds. And then floated to the ground - the whole thing was about a 25 minute plane ride in the smallest, crammed plane and a 5 minute fall to the ground. We heard is was the prettiest and cheapest spot to dive in new Zealand so we started the trip with a bang!!

Now we are in Mercury Bay! We went to Mt. Eden today and spent the night with family of Adam's in Auckland - which is a cool city because it is surrounded by 48 volcanoes! Anyways, we travelled for quite a while today and our bus brokedown for about two hours so we all ended up in a random pasture playing frisbee and getting to know each other! haha, it's all part of the roadtrip adventure! Tomorrow we head to Rotorua and have some experiences with the Maori culture!

I'll try and update this as time goes! Thinking of you all!